I know! I'm just thinking about the crispness of the paper and the smell of the old leather and knowing some fencer had likely touched the pages and guh.
I know! I know! I'm always hanging about in the Argosy and other rare book places here (where I've had some amazing finds because of stuff that wasn't valuable but was really old and of personal amusement value -- i.e., a French translation of Tacitus from the mid-17th century that I snagged for ridiculously little money).
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Date: 2008-09-26 02:06 pm (UTC)I'm just thinking about the crispness of the paper and the smell of the old leather and knowing some fencer had likely touched the pages and guh.
It's practically not safe for work.
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Date: 2008-09-26 02:08 pm (UTC)